Over the course of the 2020 NFL season, the core of the league's COVID-19 mitigation strategy has been a significant and advanced contact tracing system. To date, 37 individuals the NFL identified as ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Lorna Thorpe, director of epidemiology at New York University Grossman School of Medicine, on the benefits and disadvantages of contact tracing at this pandemic phase.

SEATTLE — Face masks are just one of the additions to the Washington school supply list this year. Districts have implemented several COVID-19 mitigation strategies as students return to the classroom ...

Yes, it's time-consuming. No, it's not hard. Yes, you'll learn something. I have a full-time job and no plans to leave it, but when Johns Hopkins launched an online course for contact tracers last ...

A team of FIU researchers hope a do-it-yourself contact tracing tool they created last year will help disrupt the surge of new COVID-19 cases and the highly transmissible Delta variant. Contact ...

"It’s going to be the summer of outbreak hunting." Many states are rolling back restrictions and masking guidance now that just over half of American adults are vaccinated against COVID-19. But public ...

It was supposed to have both prevented the worst ravages of the pandemic and given people in lockdown something to do. An army of contact tracers working the phones would find people exposed to the ...